Younger, unvaccinated COVID-19 patients filling Bay Area hospitals
Jennifer Holton reports
BRADENTON, Fla. - Numbers released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) show Florida COVID-19 hospitalizations are higher than last year’s record, before the vaccine was even developed. We didn’t have a solution [last year], Pinellas County Administrator Barry Burton said at a commission meeting Tuesday morning. We have a solution now. So we’re not talking about mandates, we’re talking about taking the solution and trying to curb the spread of this.
At Tampa General Hospital, 90% of COVID-19 designated beds are currently occupied, including 51 in the COVID ICU. BayCare Health says its number of COVID patients has quadrupled over the last four weeks. And at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, there are 131 COVID patients, up from 115 on Friday; 29 of those are in the ICU.
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Florida Breaks Records for COVID-19 Infections and Hospitalizations
On Saturday, July 31, Florida experienced the highest single-day total number of new COVID-19 infections since the start of the pandemic with more than 21,600 new cases. Florida has become the national epicenter of the pandemic, accounting for one in five new cases across the country.
On Sunday, Aug. 1, Florida broke another previous record, reporting the highest number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus in a single day since the start of the pandemic more than a year ago.
The AP reports, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says 10,170 people in Florida are hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19.